The Star Maker - Hardcover

Yep, Laurence

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060253150 ISBN 13: 9780060253158

Verlag: HARPERCOLLINS, 2010

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Book by Yep Laurence

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If only Artie had kept his mouth shut.But his mean cousin Petey was putting him down, so Artie started bragging.Now he has to come up with enough money to buy firecrackers for all his cousins by the Lunar New Year.Luckily, there's one person he can count on . . . Uncle Chester!Newbery Honor Book author Laurence Yep celebrates family and Chinese New Year traditions in this story of a boy and his uncle who discover that age doesn't matter when it comes to helping out a friend.

Biografía del autor:

Laurence Yep is the acclaimed author of more than sixty books for young people and a winner of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award. His illustrious list of novels includes the Newbery Honor Books Dragonwings and Dragon's Gate; The Earth Dragon Awakes: The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, a Texas Bluebonnet Award nominee; and The Dragon's Child: A Story of Angel Island, which he cowrote with his niece, Dr. Kathleen S. Yep, and was named a New York Public Library's "One Hundred Titles for Reading and Sharing" and a Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book.

Mr. Yep grew up in San Francisco, where he was born. He attended Marquette University, graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and received his PhD from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He lives in Pacific Grove, California, with his wife, the writer Joanne Ryder.

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• Verlag: HARPERCOLLINS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0060253150
• ISBN 13: 9780060253158
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 100